2023 Most Well Attended East Asian Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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In 2020-2021, 2,293 people earned their degree in East Asian languages, making the major the 188th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, East Asian languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,485 and had an average of $22,162 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 143 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,738 and $21,565 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended East Asian Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in East Asian languages. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in East Asian languages.

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Most Well Attended East Asian Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree east asian students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Languages in the Southwest Region

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended East Asian Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s East Asian degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about East Asian Languages at ASU - Tempe

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended East Asian Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 82 masters’s East Asian degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UT Austin East Asian Languages Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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